Calle 13 garners three Latin Grammy Award nominations, including best new artist and three nods for the MTV Latin America Awards, where it is slated to perform with Nelly Furtado. The duo also joins her on the premiere of new channel MTV Tr3s, reported Reuters.

Calle 13 has already begun promotion throughout Latin America and has garnered heavy rotation in countries like Colombia. The act is now being heavily worked in Mexico and Spain. A new album is slated for next year. Perez says it will be darker, more musically complex and designed to make the listener think.

"Really, I was very sure of this," he says about Calle 13. "I was crazy to have somebody listen to us. Understand it. I hadn't had the opportunity, and this was my first one. I knew it was good. The lyrics were good. It sounded like nothing else. There was no excuse not to do it."

Calle 13 records a rap interlude for "La Peleita," a track on Alejandro Sanz's upcoming album.

Publication date: 10 October 2006   

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